Human Personhood from a Kantian Perspective
... What sets humans apart from all other creatures? If you were to approach a biological Homo sapiens with the question “what makes you human?” how would they respond? Do we have value simply as humans, or are we nothing more than what we offer the world? Philosophers have discussed these questions for ...
... What sets humans apart from all other creatures? If you were to approach a biological Homo sapiens with the question “what makes you human?” how would they respond? Do we have value simply as humans, or are we nothing more than what we offer the world? Philosophers have discussed these questions for ...
Editorial
... last statement takes us to the field that “no fixed essence is established” that is why “each thing can be a total manifestation of the whole reality” (Izutsu, 2009, pp. 100-101) On the other hand, in his book Philosophy of Zen Buddhism, Byung-Chul Han has characterized the emptiness from that that ...
... last statement takes us to the field that “no fixed essence is established” that is why “each thing can be a total manifestation of the whole reality” (Izutsu, 2009, pp. 100-101) On the other hand, in his book Philosophy of Zen Buddhism, Byung-Chul Han has characterized the emptiness from that that ...
The Essentials of Pragmatism
... E. Doing and Thinking -one may ask, if practice and action are so important to pragmatism, why not make meaning consist in Doing? -Peirce responds: -pragmatism is not simply the doctrine of doing! -it is the doctrine that all cognition has a purpose, so that thinking is a form of doing that enables ...
... E. Doing and Thinking -one may ask, if practice and action are so important to pragmatism, why not make meaning consist in Doing? -Peirce responds: -pragmatism is not simply the doctrine of doing! -it is the doctrine that all cognition has a purpose, so that thinking is a form of doing that enables ...
Kant`s Epistemology
... capacity of the human mind by which it organizes and structures raw sense data. One of the categories is PUC. – One may see a similarity between Kant’s view of perception and Aristotle’s view of substance. – For Aristotle, a substance is created when a form organizes and structures inherently formle ...
... capacity of the human mind by which it organizes and structures raw sense data. One of the categories is PUC. – One may see a similarity between Kant’s view of perception and Aristotle’s view of substance. – For Aristotle, a substance is created when a form organizes and structures inherently formle ...
Environmental Ethics Anthropocentrism
... By means of these sensations of pain, hunger, thirst and so on, nature also teaches not merely that I am present to my body in the way a sailor is present in a ship, but that I am most tightly joined and, so to speak, commingled with it, so much so that I and the body constitute one single thing. Fo ...
... By means of these sensations of pain, hunger, thirst and so on, nature also teaches not merely that I am present to my body in the way a sailor is present in a ship, but that I am most tightly joined and, so to speak, commingled with it, so much so that I and the body constitute one single thing. Fo ...
Conversation with Johanna Seibt
... that x is F’ or ‘there is something that is F.’ But not every entity needs to be a thing or thing-like. Geach argued at some point that we should read predicate variables in formulas such as: ‘∃f (f(a))’ as ‘somehow, there is somehow which a is.’ Sellars developed a similar line of thought, saying t ...
... that x is F’ or ‘there is something that is F.’ But not every entity needs to be a thing or thing-like. Geach argued at some point that we should read predicate variables in formulas such as: ‘∃f (f(a))’ as ‘somehow, there is somehow which a is.’ Sellars developed a similar line of thought, saying t ...
投影片 1
... suggests a ‘wholeness’ and consistency; opposed to incoherence and inconsistency involves a person’s basic beliefs and values; these beliefs and values form a ‘whole’; one acts in a way is consistent or coherent with those beliefs and values, and does so in a way that others can count on. is a dispo ...
... suggests a ‘wholeness’ and consistency; opposed to incoherence and inconsistency involves a person’s basic beliefs and values; these beliefs and values form a ‘whole’; one acts in a way is consistent or coherent with those beliefs and values, and does so in a way that others can count on. is a dispo ...
Refining Reid`s Principle of Credulity
... an earlier writer, follows an auctour: preferably a Latin one. This is one of the things that differentiate the period almost equally from savagery and from our modern civilisation. In a savage community you absorb your culture, in part unconsciously, from participation in the immemorial pattern of ...
... an earlier writer, follows an auctour: preferably a Latin one. This is one of the things that differentiate the period almost equally from savagery and from our modern civilisation. In a savage community you absorb your culture, in part unconsciously, from participation in the immemorial pattern of ...
Prelude
... ethical aspects of the problem of the inescapable self in Chapter 3, on altruism, and Chapter 4, on objectivity. Another aspect of the problem of the inescapable self comes into view in Chapter 4. Descartes’s retreat into the citadel of the certainties of self-consciousness not only puts everything ...
... ethical aspects of the problem of the inescapable self in Chapter 3, on altruism, and Chapter 4, on objectivity. Another aspect of the problem of the inescapable self comes into view in Chapter 4. Descartes’s retreat into the citadel of the certainties of self-consciousness not only puts everything ...
Rape of Aphrodite
... appetites in order to safeguard any sense of functionality. He has abandoned all perspectives on longevity and conformity. He has become a seizer of moments, and a sinner in real time. Let us for a moment play with the jittery acrobatics of logic. If we establish certain truths, via certain thoughts ...
... appetites in order to safeguard any sense of functionality. He has abandoned all perspectives on longevity and conformity. He has become a seizer of moments, and a sinner in real time. Let us for a moment play with the jittery acrobatics of logic. If we establish certain truths, via certain thoughts ...
Smriti Singh Initial Walkthrough Hello there. My name is Smriti, and I
... I was inspired by one of my favorite YouTubers, Michelle Phan, who is internationally known as a makeup artist, but also a dreamer. A dreamer is the narrator I pictured for this poem, and thus her philosophy as such a modern presentation of what Williams describes emotionally and physically in this ...
... I was inspired by one of my favorite YouTubers, Michelle Phan, who is internationally known as a makeup artist, but also a dreamer. A dreamer is the narrator I pictured for this poem, and thus her philosophy as such a modern presentation of what Williams describes emotionally and physically in this ...
from Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
... among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. […] Chapter I. Nature To go in ...
... among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. […] Chapter I. Nature To go in ...
Gloria Origgi
... Diachronic minds tend to have a narrative disposition towards their past, whereas episodic minds do not link their idea of their selves to a particular phenomenological quality of their “self-experience”. Our knowledge of being the same human beings as in our past can be of a very indirect nature, ...
... Diachronic minds tend to have a narrative disposition towards their past, whereas episodic minds do not link their idea of their selves to a particular phenomenological quality of their “self-experience”. Our knowledge of being the same human beings as in our past can be of a very indirect nature, ...
Philosophy As a Therapy of Human Mind
... Therefore, the brain is not the only human organ of thought. Human beings also think with the totality of their creatureliness – all their senses, all preceding history and the experiences of nation, society, humanity. Thus, the human essence (mind, soul, spirit) is an aggregate of the (inner and ou ...
... Therefore, the brain is not the only human organ of thought. Human beings also think with the totality of their creatureliness – all their senses, all preceding history and the experiences of nation, society, humanity. Thus, the human essence (mind, soul, spirit) is an aggregate of the (inner and ou ...
A Call for Inclusion in the Pragmatic Justification of Democracy
... commitments ranging from metaphysics to politics: a transactional account of experience, theories of child development and of human flourishing generally, proposals for economic and political reform, and more. But the question is not whether he had deeply held beliefs. Any inquirer or political agen ...
... commitments ranging from metaphysics to politics: a transactional account of experience, theories of child development and of human flourishing generally, proposals for economic and political reform, and more. But the question is not whether he had deeply held beliefs. Any inquirer or political agen ...
8th FY Khoo Memorial Lecture 2012—Why Radiologists Need
... enable us to summarise a wealth of information and even controversy into a single pithy consensus statement. This is efficient and enables us to get our work done without exhaustive analysis. However, such beliefs are rarely absolutely true, there may well be dissenters from these viewpoints, and th ...
... enable us to summarise a wealth of information and even controversy into a single pithy consensus statement. This is efficient and enables us to get our work done without exhaustive analysis. However, such beliefs are rarely absolutely true, there may well be dissenters from these viewpoints, and th ...
8. Handout on Plato`s Theory of Forms - Elly Pirocacos
... quite black, equal and so on), and knowledge is possible, it follows that there must be other kinds of objects that give rise to knowledge. These objects are Plato’s Forms. The world of sensory objects, as indicated above, is called the World of Appearance, and the world of Forms is called the World ...
... quite black, equal and so on), and knowledge is possible, it follows that there must be other kinds of objects that give rise to knowledge. These objects are Plato’s Forms. The world of sensory objects, as indicated above, is called the World of Appearance, and the world of Forms is called the World ...
1 Philosophy of New Times. Rationalism and empiricism
... Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy. Descartes developed a method to attain truths according to which nothing which cannot be recognised by the intellect (or reason) can be classified as knowledge. These truths are gained "without any sensory experience", according to Descartes. Truths that are ...
... Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy. Descartes developed a method to attain truths according to which nothing which cannot be recognised by the intellect (or reason) can be classified as knowledge. These truths are gained "without any sensory experience", according to Descartes. Truths that are ...
MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Philo 12) - Law, Politics, and Philosophy
... thinker, philosophy is the study of the ultimate principles and causes of things using human reason alone. It is a science that provides a systematic and clear account of what is deemed important in the world, such as questions pertaining to reality and human existence. It asks the basis for the rat ...
... thinker, philosophy is the study of the ultimate principles and causes of things using human reason alone. It is a science that provides a systematic and clear account of what is deemed important in the world, such as questions pertaining to reality and human existence. It asks the basis for the rat ...
Two Cartesian Topics – Scepticism and the Mind
... Even in the Meditations, Descartes tries to motivate his claim to know the essence of mind (as thinking) from his doubt argument: “what shall I now say that I am [when I might be deceived by an evil demon, or dreaming]? … At present I am not admitting anything except what is necessarily true. I am, ...
... Even in the Meditations, Descartes tries to motivate his claim to know the essence of mind (as thinking) from his doubt argument: “what shall I now say that I am [when I might be deceived by an evil demon, or dreaming]? … At present I am not admitting anything except what is necessarily true. I am, ...
Englightenment in Philosophy and Religion
... individual, thinking of each person as an independent island without the myriad relationships and ties that together constitute a meaningful life. Perhaps this is due, at least in part, to Kant’s own biography. He had few friends, he never married, and he never once in his entire life left his homet ...
... individual, thinking of each person as an independent island without the myriad relationships and ties that together constitute a meaningful life. Perhaps this is due, at least in part, to Kant’s own biography. He had few friends, he never married, and he never once in his entire life left his homet ...
T - Philosophy at Hertford College
... “But as this interruption of their existence is contrary to their perfect identity, and makes us regard the first impression as annihilated, and the second as newly created, we find ourselves somewhat at a loss, and are involv’d in a kind of contradiction. In order to free ourselves from this diffi ...
... “But as this interruption of their existence is contrary to their perfect identity, and makes us regard the first impression as annihilated, and the second as newly created, we find ourselves somewhat at a loss, and are involv’d in a kind of contradiction. In order to free ourselves from this diffi ...
Human Nature and the Transcendent
... many philosophers have pondered on, from Augustine before him, to Kierkegaard and many subsequent writers since.2 To be human is to recognize that we are, in a certain sense, incomplete beings. We are ...
... many philosophers have pondered on, from Augustine before him, to Kierkegaard and many subsequent writers since.2 To be human is to recognize that we are, in a certain sense, incomplete beings. We are ...
Sartre-How Do We Get From Nothingnes to Freedom
... which we know from their intentionalities. We are what we do with these objects, and when we have to make choices we have nothing else to turn to but the factical and somewhat random experience we have of them. We are therefore not inclined to act in any particular way except that which facticity te ...
... which we know from their intentionalities. We are what we do with these objects, and when we have to make choices we have nothing else to turn to but the factical and somewhat random experience we have of them. We are therefore not inclined to act in any particular way except that which facticity te ...
CHAPTER 1 * A Process-Relational World/ A Relational Organic
... Becoming - the world is composed of physical and mental “substances”. • Descartes imported Platonic immutable substances into this world of objects and human minds. • Our own minds (or souls) are, for Cartesian thinkers, primary instances of things that are not relational and not dynamic processes. ...
... Becoming - the world is composed of physical and mental “substances”. • Descartes imported Platonic immutable substances into this world of objects and human minds. • Our own minds (or souls) are, for Cartesian thinkers, primary instances of things that are not relational and not dynamic processes. ...